Jon Hittner
Principal Technical Consultant at Building Intelligence
South Amboy, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolJon Hittner is a Principal Technical Consultant with 11+ years of formal engineering experience and a three-decade background in UNIX and systems operations, now focused on application architecture, automation, and modernization of highly available systems. He blends deep operations roots with full-stack development and DevOps practice, driving projects from proof of concept through deployment and observability. Jon has led geographically distributed teams and lifecycles at companies ranging from WebMD and Peloton to Building Intelligence, consistently improving reliability and operational maturity. He’s known for turning complex, legacy environments into automated, maintainable platforms and mentoring engineers to scale those practices. Based in South Amboy, NJ, he combines hands-on troubleshooting instincts from his early UNIX and support roles with modern cloud-native design patterns. A pragmatic problem-solver, Jon often bridges the gap between SRE rigor and product delivery to reduce toil while increasing velocity.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Degree Computer Science, Associates Degree Computer Science at Brookdale Community College
Github Skills (80)
python10
opentofu10
thin10
cli10
iot10
aws10
raspberry-pi10
mqtt9
home-automation9
vagrant9
developer-tools9
packer9
testing9
terraform9
contour9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
moodwrench/packer
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
platformslinuxpackerdockermachine-images
moodwrench/terragrunt
May 2021 - May 2021
Terragrunt is a thin wrapper for Terraform that provides extra tools for working with multiple Terraform modules.
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
terragruntterraform-modulesthinhclterraform
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